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[LionsFanNJ]

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Catwoman has improved marginally from its horrible debuts. Winick is still an arrogant **** about the way he writes each issue, but slowly he's starting to flesh out Selina's motivations about why she does what she does, especially now that a big loss happened in her life in the issues. Still, its not at the level of writing in the other Bat-verse titles.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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So, I picked up my regular subs today, but for some reason was feeling rather adventurous. I'm months behind on my comics, but I just felt the need to buy something else. I asked my comic book guy for recommendations and aside from learning that he hasn't read Scott Pilgrim (how does that happen?) I ended up buying a TPB of Chew and the first two issues of Lobster Johnson. I'm pretty excited, but I really need to catch up on Batman.

[Guffers]

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What do you guys think of the new Justice League books? I think I've had a fairly tepid response to them. Jim Lee's art was fantastic but the writing feels kind of cheesy and basic. This may be on purpose though, DC are most likely trying to draw in new readers with this book.

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Catwoman has improved marginally from its horrible debuts. Winick is still an arrogant **** about the way he writes each issue, but slowly he's starting to flesh out Selina's motivations about why she does what she does, especially now that a big loss happened in her life in the issues. Still, its not at the level of writing in the other Bat-verse titles.

Yeah, since the loss of that character in her life Selena's been better fleshed out but there's still the unnecessary art choices of making Selena look like a whore which I know isn't Winnick's job but as the writer he pretty much gives the artist his ideas of how he wants it presented. I haven't had a chance to check out this week's books but will do so sometime over the weekend.

What do you guys think of the new Justice League books? I think I've had a fairly tepid response to them. Jim Lee's art was fantastic but the writing feels kind of cheesy and basic. This may be on purpose though, DC are most likely trying to draw in new readers with this book.

Well the first arc of Justice League was meant to be kinda cheesy in a way since it's the formation of the team and such but I thought the basic premise was setup well and you already have the dynamics in play for future character interaction. The whole thing with Darkseid was ok though that made the last couple issues of the arc very light reading. The setup for the next arc looks intriguing though.

JLI is a bit of a mystery to me as most of the team is either hurt or dead at the moment so I don't know where the heck that's going but anything with Booster Gold is going to get my reading attention so we'll see how that goes. I really do like the idea of a Justice League that is more or less run by the UN at the top but even that status quo has gone to seed in this current arc. It kinda feels like the book is going to be terminated We'll see what happens.

Justice League Dark.....well i'm not the biggest magic/fantasy type of person so it isn't really calling out to me but i'm hanging in there with this one.


BTW anyone checking out the new Vertigo ongoing (first issue came out last week) called Saucer Country? The premise is very interesting as it looks to be co-mingling the whole politics of illegal aliens with an actual impending space alien invasion. It's a political drama fused with the sci fi of aliens so while parts of the 1st issue was a little cheesy and the main character seems to be drawn heavily from Sarah Palin (at least superficially) she's actually a deeper character. There's a lot there that can fuel the story along. So give it a look if you've got extra money or are looking for something different.

I'm also checking out Hickman's Manhattan Projects but i'm not quite feeling that one just yet. I'll be giving it 3 or so issues before I make a judgment.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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My comic book guy was telling me about Saucer Country yesterday. It sounds interesting, but I didn't bite on it.

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I think JLD is great but I like those sort of themes. That one is my favorite in terms of art.

[Happy29]

Isn't Smallville season 11 coming next month? Will anyone besides myself be picking it up? I watched all 10 seasons of Smallville religiously never missing an episode, even now I don't miss an episode in syndication. So I'm looking forward to seeing what they are going to be doing here.


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[kingkilla56]

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Just read The Walking Dead issue 48. Im ****ing paralyzed. I've never been one to read comics, but this series got me and this issue has me scared to read the next. I'm STUNNED.

Bravo

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I finally caught up on Batman last night. I went through all 7 issues. What an awesome story-arc. Issue #5 was awesome. I loved how they used the orientation of the pages to represent Bruce's state of mind. Some pretty trippy issues, the last couple ones. Its great how much Snyder is just hitting on the right thing, deciding to actually build a compelling, provoking, and "smart" story rather than simply have Batman be an action star - though the few splashes of action have been great. I expect the next couple issues to be balls to the wall, though.

[Guffers]

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Isn't Smallville season 11 coming next month? Will anyone besides myself be picking it up? I watched all 10 seasons of Smallville religiously never missing an episode, even now I don't miss an episode in syndication. So I'm looking forward to seeing what they are going to be doing here.


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I'll give it a shot with the hope that it will be everything that the show wasn't in terms of story and character development. Hopefully it can be something cool without the restraints of a special effects budget etc. That show drove me nuts with the way they teased us for 10 years. It was a masterclass in spinning its wheels. And put some freaking red shorts on Superman! He had them in the finale.

[goh]

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Night of Owls will be taking place across these:

All-Star Western #9
Batman #9
Batman Annual #1
Batman: The Dark Knight #9
Batwing #9
Batman and Robin #9
Birds of Prey #9
Batgirl #9
Catwoman #9
Detective Comics #9
Nightwing #8-9
Red Hood and the Outlaws #9

[Guffers]

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Night of Owls will be taking place across these:

All-Star Western #9
Batman #9
Batman Annual #1
Batman: The Dark Knight #9
Batwing #9
Batman and Robin #9
Birds of Prey #9
Batgirl #9
Catwoman #9
Detective Comics #9
Nightwing #8-9
Red Hood and the Outlaws #9

Wow! I had no idea that the crossover was to be this huge! Well played DC, Snyder's Batman has been so outrageously good that I will have no choice but to pick up all of these titles.

[goh]

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I'm not understanding the timing. Gotham is being over run by owls AND vampires at the same time?

[Happy29]

Smallville Season 11 comes out Friday for only $0.99 on comixology.


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Night of Owls will be taking place across these:

All-Star Western #9
Batman #9
Batman Annual #1
Batman: The Dark Knight #9
Batwing #9
Batman and Robin #9
Birds of Prey #9
Batgirl #9
Catwoman #9
Detective Comics #9
Nightwing #8-9
Red Hood and the Outlaws #9

One thing I like with DC going with the "family of books" philosophy is that crossover/major events are limited to the books in those families whereas at Marvel their events sprawl all over the place linewide. Marvel has gotten better though what with the Spidey events usually centered in books that Spidey is involved in or has a historical connection certain characters. The other thing that has Marvel a little better is that their last line wide event did sprawl all over but the core event book was self contained enough that you didn't need to read the extra stuff. Hopefully AVX will be that way as its started off pretty well IMO.